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Our most prestigious project “Rejuvenation How will construction of your smart city impact the community?
of Mandakki Bhatti” has lot of socio e aim of Davanagere smart city is to assure following facilities to the citizens.
-economic – health interventions. We are • Adequate 24*7 water supply,
conducting continuous social and health • Assured electricity supply,
awareness programmes like health camps • Sanitation, including solid waste management,
to achieve the goal. • E cient urban mobility and public transport,
• Robust IT connectivity and digitalization,
What are the green initiatives taken for • Good governance, especially e-governance and citizen participation,
this smart city project? • Sustainable environment,
Smart city projects concentrate on • Safety and security of citizens, particularly women, children and the elderly, and
non-transport facilities such as bicycle • Health and education.
sharing, e- rickshaws which reduce the By assuring this, we expect to improve the living standards of the community. And in
carbon footprint. Project of usage of addition to neutralize the economic and social imbalance existing between the old and
treated sewerage water for parks and road new part of the city.
side greeneries has been taken up by the
DSCL which aims to reduce the usage of car ,Tra c violation detection (through • Environmental pollution, particularly
underground water. is project has been integration with Signalling System), air pollution, is nowadays an alarming
listed out as a green project as per smart city Facial Recognition System i.e. matching problem in most of the Indian cities. It
guidelines issued by GOI. of suspect / criminal photograph with is important to monitor the air quality
DSCL has tendered project of roof top solar di erent databases available with Police at multiple points in the city as well as
panels for eight government buildings and . to provide real-time information about
will shortly implementing it. We have a • Video Management System (VMS) the air quality to the citizens, which will
proposal for installation of roof top solar for is the application software of the help in creating an awareness towards
private buildings as well. In addition to this, Surveillance System which will be used the pollution related problems among
the city street lights going to be installed to manage the videos received from the citizens. As part of the Davanagere
with LED lights. So overall it reduces the various cameras. The VMS will be Smart City programme, it has been
energy consumption. hosted at Data Centre. decided that the air quality in the city
• At major entry/exit points of the city, will be monitored at select identi ed
Detail us with regards to the latest Automatic Number Plate Recognition locations.
technologies like construction equipment, (ANPR) Cameras will be installed to • One City-One Website with Mobile
software, building materials etc being capture registration numbers of vehicles Application will comprise of a common
used in your smart city project. entering and exiting the city. Web Portal and Mobile Application
• Gasi er based pu ed rice units at the • e Smart Tra c Signals will be based for the city which will be the uni ed
Mandakki Bhatti area rejunevantion, on area tra c control system (ATCS) interface for speci ed citizens’ services.
• In the so ware’s like advanced video and will automatically alter the cycle It will serve as a common platform
analytics softwares that will detect time depending on the tra c queue of information dissemination about
unattended objects, Suspicious object on various arms of the junction, using Davanagere City and to deliver services
(such as Gun, knife, etc.) detection , vehicle actuated controllers. e Smart online including payment of bills.
Motion / intrusion detection ,Camera Tra c Signals will also be connected to The common Web Portal and Mobile
vandalism and tamper detection Virtual the Command and Control Centre so Application will also allow Davanagere
Fence / Trespassing People / Mass that they can be remotely controlled/ administration to engage with citizens
movement Vehicle tracking based upon configured to alter the signal cycle through the use of social media and blogs,
the registration number/colour of the times, as per requirements. online voting platform, etc.

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